Show I Now and Them I At the time the commission submitted submitted sub sub- this report to Washington I Ia a very general demand had been made by non non Mormons residing in inthe the territory on the forthe for tor the enactment of a law that would S create a commission to be known L Las s as a legislative commIssion which I should be composed of nine ot or thirteen members to be appointed L by the presIdent and to whom al aU I legislative legislative- authority conferred b by the organic act of the thern territory upon the legislative aS assembly a as I Iwas was then constituted should bt be i vested The commissionS commission however did not comply with the request bell that such action on th the i part of the commission would no not t be In consonance with the sentiment senti senti- ment expressed by congress in th the Edmunds act until the he opportunity given In the law to the Mormon people to abandon their offensive system be tully fully considered 1 and accepted or declined by them |